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Texas to hold all 10 football title games at Cowboys Stadium

In 2010, Jones' new behemoth of a football arena, Cowboys Stadium, hosted six Texas state football championship games to great fanfare a couple months before it hosted the Super Bowl. In 2011, the home of the Dallas Cowboys will get even more title games.

That 43,000 paid attendance marked the third largest crowd for a championship game in Texas history, trailing only two prior title games played at other Dallas-area venues (the now demolished Texas Stadium and the Cotton Bowl, to be precise). The Class 5A crowd also outdrew a whopping 16 of the holiday season's college football bowl games.

Whether hosting all of the state's title games at the same site will help push the total attendance above the 1977 record mark of 49, 953 remains to be seen, but UIL officials seem bullish that hosting all 10 games in one place will bring an even larger walk-up crowd than the title games received in 2010.

"From the comments we got from the players, coaches and fans last year, almost all of them were positive," UIL director of athletics Mark Cousins told the Texas High School Coaches Association convention. "[The 2010 games at Cowboys Stadium were] an overwhelming success."

While the massive haul of ticket revenue and demonstrated fan interest might seem to make Arlington seem like a natural to serve as an annual host to the title games, UIL officials insisted that wouldn't be the case. Instead, they insisted that the 11-man championship games will continue to rotate between sites in the Dallas, Houston and San Antonio areas, as they have for a number of years.

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